Piece by Piece

| Kenneth B. Ackerman

In nearly every distribution center in the United States, workers are paid by the hour. While their productivity is (or should be) measured in units,

All in the Family

| MCM staff

OH, TO BE VIVITEK! A start-up of Sun Chemical Corporation, the fast-growing printing supply business has seen its revenue grow from zero to millions in

Danger fulfillment person!

| Bennett Voyles

ONE OF THESE DAYS, not too many years from now, someone from the central office will come down to visit your operation. He’ll admire the RFID holographic

Value Pack

| Barbara Arnn

IF YOU ARE LOOKING for value-added packaging services, you probably know exactly what you mean, but who else does? There seem to be almost as many interpretations

Waaay Beyond the Call

| MCM staff

IT’S BEEN YEARS since your call center morphed from a simple phone-based organization into a multichannel, multimedia, multitasking behemoth. And you’re

Customer Service

| Rama Ramaswami

There’s very little the world can throw at U.S. consumers to keep them from spending money, a reporter for CNN/Money wrote in February 2003. Consumers

Complex Problem

| Rama Ramaswami

With so much emphasis on shaving inventory to the bone, having ready access to stock when it is needed is of paramount importance for merchants. Third-party

Penney Catalog Head Resigns

| MCM staff

Two weeks after being passed over for the position of chairman/CEO of J.C. Penney Corp., Vanessa Castagna, chairman/CEO of the company’s stores, catalog, and Internet, resigned.

RFID Adoption

| Jeff Morris

IS THERE A METHOD to the madness in the way RFID technology is being purchased and deployed? Apparently so, says a recent report from Forrester Research